When journalists fail to do the research on the anime and manga they're reviewing, CowboyBebopAtHisComputer is the result.

Franchises with their own pages:[[index]]* ''CowboyBebopAtHisComputer/{{Pokemon}}''[[/index]]

----* The TropeNamer is from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' and a rather incorrect newspaper picture caption (see the page pic). In a similar manner to Harvard University's Statue of Three Lies, every single word except "at" and the photo credit "[[Creator/BandaiEntertainment Bandai]]" is specifically, individually wrong: ** The character pictured goes by Ed.** [[TomboyishName Ed is a girl]].** "Cowboy," the slang term for "bounty hunter" used in the world of the series, refers to the main characters' profession rather than naming anybody. Ed is also not one, being the crew's TagalongKid and a hacker, not a bounty hunter.** It's Bebop, not "[=BeBop=]". ** Bebop is the name of the main characters' ship, not (again) any person.[[note]]It also references the music style featured in the soundtrack.[[/note]]** The only part of the ship's computer actually shown in the picture is the [[ComputerEqualsMonitor monitor]].** Ed doesn't own the computer.[[note]]Or the monitor.[[/note]]* In a mix of this and CoversAlwaysLie, the ''text at the back of the VHS covers'' of the Finnish release of ''Manga/GingaNagareboshiGin'' is infamous for making little to no sense. The back of the first VHS, for example, claims that [[BlatantLies the show takes place in Alaska and the people raise bearhounds to protect themselves from ferocious grizzly bears]].[[note]]The show takes place in Japan, only one character in the main character's home village raises bearhounds and the bears are either brown or Asian black bears, not grizzlies.[[/note]]** The back of another cassette described the situation the previous VHS left off as the protagonists being "surrounded by Akaka Booto". ''Akakabuto'' is a single bear and as such unable to surround anything by himself, large though he is. The protagonists are actually surrounded by a pack of enemy dogs whose motivations are completely unrelated to bears.* One gossip magazine during the 2003 Finnish accusations of pedophilic content in the recently arrived ''Franchise/DragonBall'' manga (the usual story and accuracy). It opened by calling the comic ''Dragon Balls'' and went from there.** The most hilarious research failure was how the MoralGuardians commented how the neighbouring country of Sweden is free of such vile products... when their most sold comic that year was none other than ''Franchise/DragonBall''.** Speaking of ''Dragon Ball'' and pedophilia, there's the case of Lloyd de Mause and "psychohistory". In his attempt to [[SingleIssuePsychology prove that all human history has been cases of child abuse]], he used the phallic humor in ''Dragon Ball'' ("That poor dragon...", [[CrotchGrabSexCheck Goku's tendency to "check" to make sure people are male or female]], etc.) and the underage male nudity to somehow prove that [[WindmillCrusader all Japanese mothers masturbate their sons]]. Okay, [[SarcasmMode that's all fine]], but because of Goku's NobleSavage origins, he referred to Goku as Tarzan throughout!* ''Magazine/TVGuide'' reported on the popularity of the anime at the time the article was written. While not negative in tone, the writer openly admitted his bafflement, titling the article "Fusion Confusion" and claimed "It's harder to understand than computer schematics." He also credited Goku with protecting us from "the ferocious Saiyan", a statement that's not too ''wrong'', per se. He then added that he only understood as much from reading some fan sites. He listed Goku's sons as "Gohan and Gotan", and closed the article by saying that he watched the show for its "fantastic" animation. Well, there's far worse media coverage examples in this list, but this one is amusing as well as heartwarming in a "He's trying his best" sort of way. It also demonstrates the principle of the generational gap, where "grown-ups" just can't get "kid's stuff", something we see time and again in this list.* A French article about manga had a picture of Krillin/Kuririn from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' with a legend along the lines of "When little Trunks goes mad, there's going to be hell to pay!".* A ''New York Times'' article once featured comedic redesigns of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse done by Creator/ButchHartman, one of which was a vaguely {{Animesque}} take. The paper claimed that particular design was inspired by ''Dragon Ball Z'', which they referred to as a popular children's card game. There ''was'' a ''DBZ'' card game at one point, but the writer seemed to be unaware that it was spun-off from the massively popular TV show and manga.* An article from a Scandinavian country advertised ''Anime/CodeGeass'' as a comedy series about a delightful youth named Rerouch who became the King of Britannia through use of his mystical Geass, which allowed him to gain control over any individual whose [[Manga/DeathNote name he had written down in a black note book]]. Unfortunately Rerouch is countered by a revolutionary named Jeremiah Suzaku who fights against Rerouch by using a mecha named [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion EVA]]. At some point, you have to wonder if they actually deliberately made this crap up because no sane human being could possibly get this much wrong if they had seen even 30 seconds of the show. To make matters worse, it spelled the series' name as "''Code Geese: Rerouch of the Reberrion''". The "rebellion" part isn't even GratuitousEnglish in the Japanese original (the title uses the actual Japanese word for "rebellion"), leaving the misspelling just plain baffling.* A newspaper article on ''Anime/YuGiOh'' confusingly stated that Joey had made the common mistake of using powerful cards. This was the only information on the character. In actuality, the problem was that Joey used powerful monsters and ''nothing to support them''.** A review for TheMovie said it was 11 years old. The 11-year-old movie never got to America, and this one (''Pyramid of Light'') is completely different.** The website of the German network that aired ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' provided us with hilariously ill-researched character descriptions. To provide a few examples: Yami was banned because he tried to seize the throne of the pharaoh with his shadow powers, Shizuka is blind, Anzu (MsFanservice in the early manga) is eleven years old and has been the boss of a cheerleader-group for years, and Seto became the CEO of KaibaCorp by beating Gozaburo at another game of chess, not to mention that he's two years older than everybody else. Suprisingly subverted with Bakura, whose sister Amane they mention. Said German network, Creator/RTL2, never really seemed to cared too much about their animes anyway. When ''Manga/AttackNumberOne'' (Mila Superstar in Germany) aired, the summary on their webpage was actually for ''Anime/AttackerYou'' (Mila e Shiro in ''Italy''! The show never even made it to Germany) and the summary for ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'' used the names from the Italian translation. Really makes you wonder what the heck was going on there.* An Italian TV guide summarized ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' as "the story of [[ABoyAndHisX a boy and his five dragons]]".* An interesting example [[http://telkku.com/tiedot?oid=20080719093518 here]]. If the link is broken (or you don't speak Swedish at all), it talks about ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', in which Yugi's grandfather is kidnapped by ''Pegasus''...Which was the plot of ''Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters'', not of GX.* The recaps of the various ''Anime/YuGiOhZEXAL'' episodes found on Italian TV Guides (as in, the one you find on the TV, not magazines) are well done. Except that sometimes they give wrong names to characters[[note]]The Italian dub is based on the Japanese version, but using the 4Kids names for characters introduced before the World Duel Carnival. After that, new characters use the Japanese names, but the TV Guide keeps using 4Kids names for everyone[[/note]]. And they sometimes [[ViewerGenderConfusion call Astral a female]].* ''Disney Adventures'' has labeled a picture of Anubis (from the first ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' movie) as "Seto Kaiba". They apologized for the mistake in a later issue.* In March 2008, a ten-year-old boy died from being buried alive in his sandbox. The news claimed this happened by him and his friends imitating "[[Manga/{{Naruto}} Narutu]]", which the news described as a television show where samurai use sand as a tool and to kill each other. It's also been called "Narutu Sand Ninjas". [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6JnMu2SsDo This story in particular]] has several major mistakes.** Mispronouncing "Naruto", despite featuring clips with the correct pronunciation "Nah-Ru-Toe". What's worse is that the person reporting the story was Japanese-American Akiko Fujita.** Despite avoiding calling it "Sand Ninjas", the reporter says that it is ''about'' Sand Ninjas.** Suggesting Gaara buries himself in sand, when showing him doing his Armor of Sand Jutsu. The only legitimate "sand burial" techniques are used against enemies and are explicitly intended to be fatal.** Relying on Website/{{YouTube}} clips to inform themselves about the show.** Confusing {{Ninja}} with {{Samurai}} is pretty bad too.* An infamous [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/2005_03_04_edmonton_journal_hentae.jpg article]] by ''The Edmonton Journal'' from Canada features gems such as "Hentae" and that all {{hentai}} is essentially lolicon-BDSM-rape.* ''TV Guide'' once described ''[[Anine/TenchiMuyo Tenchi Muyo in Love]]'' as "Police partners hunt an escaped convict," which is technically accurate, but didn't even bother mentioning that they're SpacePolice, or that there's time travel, alien princes, or any other elements that are fundamental to the plot.* TV program guides seem to suffer from this a lot. While describing ''Anime/RurouniKenshin'' (which was being aired on Animax), they said Kaoru was a guy, indirectly calling Kenshin gay, and mixing her up with the other [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Kaoru]] whose show was airing on the same channel.* A September 11, 2008 MSNBC [[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26639577/ report on "sexy anime going mainstream"]]. It said "[[{{Lolicon|AndShotacon}} Lolicom]]" is a combination of "Lolita" and "comic". And that "{{Otaku}}" is a word meaning "Techno-geek".** Not to mention that one of the girls' "maid costumes" in the supplied photograph is actually a cosplay of [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Cure Black]], who has never been a maid.** At least they covered the 2D/3D deal pretty well.** And apparently [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Gurren Lagann]] is a "sexually-suggestive and explicit anime" comparable with ''Legend of the Overfiend''.[[note]]Amusingly, given ''Overfiend'' is the TropeCodifier for tentacle hentai, that's playing AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles ''literally''.[[/note]]** Also, the Murakami sculpture is [[PoesLaw intended as satire]].“Americans are not there yet, but at the rate things are going, we are going to be seeing that.”* A reviewer of the ''Anime/{{Digimon|Adventure}}'' movie apparently never actually saw it, as she claimed that "the original Digidestined children are abducted by Diaboromon, and a new group of kids must save them". The same malicious lie was perpetrated by the back of the VHS and Fox Kids' official site. Diaboromon never abducted anyone. He just stalked a twelve-year old boy and then tried to blow up the world. Then, when the new kids get involved, it isn't even to deal with Diaboromon. It's to deal with Antylamon/Kerpymon.** Not to mention the fact that Antylamon/Kerpymon only abducted anyone in the Japanese version, and that particular plot was completely cut out of the American version. Which may make this a case of someone doing ''too much'' research?** When Nicktoons started streaming the series on their website, they started using the character models of the Digidestined in their ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' attire while still streaming episodes of the original ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. Not as bad as some of the other examples on this page, but still glaring enough to notice.** One Digimon the "Official" Game Guide which explained how to play the trading card it also talked about the tv series, in which is referred to Devimon as the most evil of the bad Digimon even though he was a StarterBoss for the kids. And the guide book included information on Kari so it didn't have the excuse of being put together while the show was still running the Devimon arc.* Even magazines dedicated to {{anime}} itself wind up making these mistakes:** ''Protoculture Addicts'' is particularly guilty of this. When reporting on ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'', ''PA'' decided to completely ignore most "r" and "l" translation conventions and generally go with "it's always l," giving us characters like "Heelo Yuy" and "Lelena Peacelaft."** The early issues of ''Anime Insider''. Particularly horrible errors include listing the character of Lacus Clyne from ''Gundam Seed'' as "Fllay Allster" (another character from the same show, who doesn't even share the same hair color). Their entire article on ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' reached levels of CBAHC that must be seen to be believed -- things such as listing Schwartz Bruder as Domon's Master and the previous King of Hearts (Master Asia is both) and giving the Master Gundam the profile of the Dark/Devil Gundam.*** One of the first AI issues captioned a picture of Ashitaka from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' by identifying him as "Mononoke".*** ''Anime Insider'''s sister magazine ''Wizard'' once ran a review of ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' saying Lina Inverse traveled with the sorceress Naga and "a girl named Gourry".*** There was an AI issue with an article about the (development hell-induced) live action [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] adaptation that said Shinji was a girl.*** One issue had an article about Trinity Blood with an aside picture that incorrectly identified Count Gyula as Cain.*** There was one issue that showed fanart. One picture is from Wolf's Rain, and it incorrectly identifies Hige as Toboe.* An [[http://www.dailyemerald.com/media/storage/paper859/news/2007/10/15/Opinion/Japanese.Anime.Destroying.American.Society-3032463.shtml?reffeature=recentlycommentedstoriestab article]] on the Oregon Daily Emerald criticizing anime for destroying American society says that ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', and ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' (which at first is spelled "Yugio", but after that, "sorry, Yu-Gi-Oh!") all began life as trading card games. In reality, while they all have had card games, none of them started out as that. ''Pokémon'' began life as a pair of Game Boy games created by Game Freak (and the card game came to the U.S. just a few months ''after'' the video game was released there), ''Digimon'' was originally a virtual pet (hence "Digimon", or Digital Monsters), and ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' started out as a manga written by Creator/KazukiTakahashi.** And funnily enough, ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' wasn't actually about a card game - it was about gaming in general.* While reviewing a ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fighting game for the UsefulNotes/PCEngine, [=GamePro=] Magazine must have thought Ranma to be some sort of [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 transforming superhero]], having summarized the title character's background thus:-->"[Ranma] fell into a well where a [[ActionGirl great female warrior]] had drowned. Now, [[JustAddWater when he gets]] [[DoubleEntendre wet, he gets wild!]] Bad guys learn not to spit when Ranma's around."** An issue of ''Magazine/GamePlayersMagazine'' did something similar when previewing the ''Ranma ½'' SNES game. They said the series was about "a family of fighters where the kids are trained by their parents. The kids become masters and beat up would-be bullies."* Before the anime came statside, there was a Nintendo Power article about some of the Japanese ''Dragon Ball'' games... It referred to the series as "Dragon Ballz". [[https://68.media.tumblr.com/08b5e6966959e37cd5bc9c0abc98cbb2/tumblr_inline_ogt9kuvdUl1ry74zn_540.png See here.]] * [[http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=2306346&postcount=3799 A caption on this]] names the green-haired girl in the picture (from ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'') "Rena", who is actually a different girl with orange hair; the girl in the picture is Mion. Also, she doesn't have a split personality; you could say that it's slightly implied at first, but those implications were dashed against the rocks in the arc before the [=DVD=] being advertised.* Back when ''Anime/SailorMoon'' was still airing in Russia, a local newspaper containing TV program guides would occasionally write something about it in the kids' section. This sometimes resulted in the ''Sailor Moon''-themed mini-articles mixing up the timeline (''e.g.'', calling the Crystal Tokyo the capital of the ''destroyed Moon Kingdom'') and/or mixing up the continuity (calling [=Anime!ChibiChibi=] Sailor Cosmos). One would think they could've at least visited one of the local fan websites or ask somebody familiar with the show.** DVD Talk's reviews of [[Creator/DiCEntertainment DiC]] ''Sailor Moon'' [=DVDs=] constantly call Tuxedo Mask, "Tuxedo Max," despite his name appearing on the front cover of one of the volumes discussed ("The Man in the Tuxedo Mask").** [[http://i46.tinypic.com/np0vhk.jpg A columnist]] for the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet described Sailor Moon as a nine-year-old in a "fully developed adult body" who was dressed "in a skirt so short you see her panties all the time" and passive-aggressively reflected on how no one questioned the "horny pedophile's wet dream". While she later apologized to the fans for getting the age wrong, it was obvious she still thought of Sailor Moon as a typical "extreme [sexual] object".** [[http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=2670329&page=1 An ABC News article on shoujo manga]] claims that ''Sailor Moon'' received a film adaptation by Disney in 2000.* ''Naruto Forever: The Unofficial Guide'' '''repeatedly''' refers to Hinata Hyuga as "Hina" (possibly the result of her abbreviation in pairings like {{Portmanteau Couple Name}}s like [="NaruHina"=]), only getting it correct in the character index, and even refer to "Hina" as ''him''.* An article in a Swedish newspaper about a comics/art workshop or somesuch being hosted at a local library featured a most amusing comment about how "Jolina Homlström, [class] 8E has chosen to draw the motives the way the Japanese Asian comic artist Manga does them."* The [[http://tv.yahoo.com/fullmetal-alchemist/show/38003 Yahoo TV summary]] of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' seems to have swapped around its anime: "While playing a game, brothers Alphonse and Edward Elric get transported to another dimension where Alphonse is trapped in a robotic body and Edward has become the Fullmetal Alchemist."** A [[http://virl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/651514043_fullmetal_alchemist,_profiles library]] posted a description of "Fullmetal Alchemist: Profiles" on their website. The description included lines like "fighting the evil alchemists called the Seven Deadly Sins." The homunculi are not alchemists, and are named after the SevenDeadlySins but never referred to collectively as such. Also, the description misspells the main character's name as "Edward Alric".* An [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/overman-king-gainer/dvd-complete-collection Anime News Network review]] of ''Anime/OvermanKingGainer'' criticizes the opening for being silly in a series that has a "High serious nature". King Gainer is a comedy which just happens to have been made by Yoshiyuki Tomino, who is best known for his serious anime like the ''Gundam'' franchise.* An Anime News Network writer also commented in a [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/magical-girl-lyrical-nanoha-a/dvd-box-set review]] for ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' that the songs were a good indication of why Creator/YukariTamura and Creator/NanaMizuki hadn't hit the big time as singers. One little problem: Mizuki Nana at the time of the review had already achieved mainstream success in Japan as a musician, with all of her music singles and albums appearing in the Top 10 of the Weekly Oricon charts (Japan's equivalent of the Billboard Charts) for nearly half a decade since 2005. And what's more, guess which song started this long string of hits by making her the first Seiyuu to debut a music single at no. 2 of the weekly charts? Can you say "Eternal Blaze", the opening song of ''A's''?* A Hungarian TV spot for ''Manga/DGrayMan'' began summarizing the story along the lines of "Under the spreading darkness of the evil god Akuma..." According to the channel's forum, the producer doesn't speak Japanese but still had the promo made before a single episode was translated. The error was later fixed, though.* [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/arts/television/15hale.html?_r=1 A 2006 New York Times article]] seems to think '''''[[Anime/SamuraiChamploo Samurai]]''' [[Anime/SamuraiChamploo Champloo]]'' is about a ninja in training.** Interestingly, the article itself avoids this entirely; the caption in question, however...** It was probably a mix up because the caption for the Manga/{{Naruto}} picture describes him as a "ninja in training"* When Spanish network ''LaSexta'' gave the news on the failure of the lolicon pornography ban, they somehow decided that "loli" meant "schoolgirl", so they talked about the "ban on schoolgirls"... which wouldn't have been THAT bad if all the clips they used were of {{hentai}} movies with ''busty'' schoolgirls (except one, which did have a little girl in HadakaApron).** And before that, La Sexta used to show hentai movies, but had to stop because (ironically) some movies had little girl [[ThinkOfTheChildren and people complained]]. When they gave the news on that, they started claiming "manga" meant "[[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles erotic animation]]" and it went downhill from there.* There was an article in the ''Minneapolis Star-Tribune'' about how the rising popularity of anime was due in part to its depictions of strong female characters. [[ViewerGenderConfusion The article]] featured a picture of ''Manga/InuYasha''. Uh...* Back in 2005, a mother looked through a volume of the ''Manga/PeachGirl'' manga, which happened to have a date rape scene. Cue an [[http://www.clickorlando.com/money/5497816/detail.html article]] claiming that ''Peach Girl'' is about girls being drugged and gang-raped and that Tokyopop [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles only publishes porn comics]] [[AnimationAgeGhetto marketed toward children]].** And the other Tokyopop series about "swingers" referenced in that article is obviously ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy''.* A store in Amazon.com sells ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ''gashapon'' (small collectible figurines) of some [[PsychicPowers stands]] from Part 3 (Hierophant Green, Silver Chariot and The World to be specific). But what makes them an example of this trope? Their names. Respectively are now Green character, Silver Villain and [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Johnny Joestar]].** There are character figurines from shows like ''Anime/SailorMoon'', ''Anime/TokyoMewMew'', and ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' being sold as "Pink one, Blue one, Yellow one, Green one, Orange one, Purple one, etc." with "one" sometimes replaced by "character" , "girl" , etc. ''VERY'' rarely they may say "Sailor", "Mew Mew" or "Ojamajo," but one wonders why, if they knew that much, why they wouldn't just use the character's names.* When ''Anime/SonicX'' premiered on CITV in the UK, the presenters repeatedly referred to the main character as, you guessed it, "Sonic X". This was carried on by Fox Kids/Jetix, who also referred to the bad guy as "Dr. Egg" in one promo.** Same goes for a Singaporean magazine called ''Kids Company'', which is kinda sad, seeing as they probably had prior footage and ample time to do research. They started showing the show on Singaporean airwaves a year late.** Italian press releases for the series state that Sonic is a cyborg and Knuckles is a female. Both of these statements are wrong.* A relatively minor one, a [[http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,326181790001_2008417,00.html video]] by TIME Magazine interviewing female fans at Comicon mentioned an anime/ manga called ''[[Manga/AxisPowersHetalia Access Powers Hitalia]]''. The misspelling is made more confusing because they showed official images, such as the cover of the English release of the DVD, with the title spelled out right on them.** And then there was the [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/14/fashion/14COMICON.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=lolita&st=cse The New York Times]]' coverage of Comic-Con, where an England cosplayer was referred to as "the character Hetalia in 'Axis Powers,' a popular video game."* A book that listed the main protagonists and antagonists of well-known manga claimed that the main-character of ''Manga/XXXHolic'' was Yuka Ichihara, a fifteen year-old part-timer at the magic shop who despite her age drank a lot of alcohol. Although they got her being a HardDrinkingPartyGirl right, Yuko is in fact the fully mature owner of the shop.* A recent midwest US article claimed that the local library would show "two or three episodes of an anime series, such as LightNovel/FullMetalPanic!, '''Creator/{{Clamp}}''' or Manga/DeathNote." Clamp has made a manga called ''Manga/ClampSchoolDetectives'' which can conceivably be shortened to just ''Clamp''...* According to the Verizon television listings, one of the shows on the current Creator/{{Funimation}} Channel lineup is "[[Manga/DGrayMan Dr. Gray Man]]."* An in-media example for ''Manga/GundamSousei'': a newspaper announcing the release of the ''Gundam'' movie features a picture of [[ActionGirl Sayla]], while captioning it as "the hero, Amuron".* The American Family Association wrote an article on the dangers of video games and this somehow segued into [[HGame H-games]]. This would've been fine and all....except the article misspelled '{{hentai}}' as 'hentia'. Again, wouldn't have been a problem except the article KEPT ON spelling it in that manner.* One [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] promo has Sonic the Hedgehog[[note]]or not, it's probably just [[PigeonholedVoiceActor Sonic's voice actor announcing]][[/note]] giving a synopsis of ''Anime/DragonBallKai''...and apparently [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTvabHR-9E Piccolo's a Saiyan.]]** Although this example has nothing to do with journalism, the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Potential" had Andrew say "But, I'm [[HeelFaceTurn reformed]]. I'm like Vegeta on ''Anime/DragonBallZ''. I used to be a pure Saiyan and now, I fight on the side of Goku." Apparently in both cases, they seem to think that "Saiyan" is a catch-all term for ''any'' evil alien warrior, but in reality, it refers to a member of a [[http://www.dragonballencyclopedia.com/wiki/Saiyan particular alien race]].* ''Bleeding Cool'', a comic book news website, has an article called "Swap File", where they show different background items being used in two separate comics. A [[http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/30/swipe-file-clamp-and-brightest-day/ recent one]] showed that a [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Clow Reed circle]] was used in one of the ''ComicBook/BrightestDay'' spin-off covers. Not so bad. The bad part is when they show clips and pictures from ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' and kept saying it was from ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle''. Readers were quick to correct them on their mistake.* There have been some articles on anime sites that refer to Chiba from ''Manga/WanderingSon'' as "Saorin Chiba". "Saorin" is a nickname, as putting -rin to the back of a name is common for girls in Japan; her name's just "Saori".* [[http://www.amazon.com/One-Piece-Princess-Adventures-Alabasta/dp/B0010X8NL4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328300377&sr=8-1 The Amazon editorial review]] for the One Piece movie that remade the Alabasta arc calls the film "recut footage from the "Alabasta" story arc of the TV series with some bits of additional animation." Movie 8 was a complete remake from scratch (the higher quality [[WidescreenShot wide screen]] animation featuring slightly alternate character designs and should have given it away), but this reviewer seems to mistake it for a CompilationMovie.* On February 18th 2012 The Sunderland Echo, a British local paper, had an article about the city's upcoming [[FanConvention Anime Convention]], Sunnycon and how Creator/ChristopherSabat and Creator/VeronicaTaylor were guests. It was accompanied by [[http://cheezburger.com/View/5859625472?utm_source=trans&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=transglobal this image]] ...yeah no, that's not [[Anime/DragonBallZ Vegeta]]. Then at said convention, said guests were asked if they'd be happy to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_cYXa9jY6E&feature=youtu.be swap lines]].* ''[[Anime/{{Arrietty}} The Secret World of Arrietty]]'' was slammed on ''Lou Dobbs Tonight'' for being made to be pro Occupy Wallstreet ... wait, what? Considering the book it was based on was written in the 1960s and the film itself is now 2 years old the complaint was rather ... awkward.* Whoever was in charge of translating the summary for the ''Manga/RaveMaster'' manga on the back of the books didn't bother to actually read the series, or even skim through. Otherwise he may have known the main villain's gender.* Almost every Mexican newspaper misread the name of the Franchise/{{Gundam}} franchise in many hilarious ways: ''Gandamu'' (phonetic), ''Gondam'' (spelling), ''Gandam'', etc.* [[http://www.pluggedin.com/upfront/2005/MangaAnimeInsideJapansHottestExports.aspx This]] Focus on the Family article.* The ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' commercials and ads sometimes referred to the Robotech Masters as if they were a force of good in the universe. This may be because most cartoons titles are named after the heroic forces, not the villains. This misinformation is especially explicit on the packaging for the WesternAnimation/{{Exosquad}}/Robotech toyline.* [[http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/10/mf-japan-pop-star-hatsune-miku/all/ This]] Wired article about [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Hatsune Miku]] helpfully notes:-->"Consider Franchise/{{Gundam}}, the iconic Japanese robot character. In the ’70s, a large Japanese toymaker, Clover, created Gundam and sponsored an anime series to market him."** They're only half right -- Gundam ''is'' iconic, and the original series was in fact sponsored by the toymaker Clover. However, it would take about five minutes on Wikipedia to realize that Gundam was created by Creator/YoshiyukiTomino, and that the titular machine isn't a robot in the [[Film/StarWars R2-D2]] sense but rather a HumongousMecha.* Ads for the ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' and ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'' anime adaptations in the English market claimed that they were both "from the creators of ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Hurai Suzumiya]]''". Even if they meant to type '''''Haruhi''''' ''Suzumiya'', "from the same [[Creator/KyotoAnimation animation studio]]" doesn't mean "from the creators" -- ''Haruhi'' is based on a series of light novels by an author who has nothing to do with Creator/KeyVisualArts, creators of ''AIR'' and ''Kanon''.** Ads also claimed that ''Kanon'' was a prequel to ''AIR''; the series are implied to share the same universe (and it's outright stated in a non-canonical side manga), but they take place in different towns and do not share characters aside from a brief cameo in the ''AIR'' anime.* The [=HorribleSubs=] anime subbing group termed the Manga/SaikinImoutoNoYousuGaChottoOkashiindaGa anime as "Another [[TakeThat Shitty]] Sister [[LightNovels LN]] Adaptation". It's adapted from a manga. They fixed it after the first episode, but "Another Shitty Sister Manga Adaptation" doesn't work well either, because there are few such manga (and almost definitely not enough to justify the use of the word "another") which have been adapted into anime.** HilariousInHindsight however, as a light novel adapted ''from'' the manga has been released.* ''Crunchyroll'' shows [[VisualNovel/SchoolDays School Days]]'s summary as follows: "Will Makoto win his love by taking a picture of Kotonoha without anyone knowing?" However, Sekai finds out Makoto's crush on '''''the first day of school!''''' (i.e. the first episode)* ''CITV'''s listing descriptions for their broadcast of ''[[Anime/DigimonXrosWars Digimon Fusion]]'' suffer from this. Outside of using the English episode titles, the characters and terminology used are taken right from the Japanese version. I'm pretty sure people who only watch the English language version are going to be wondering who Xros Heart, Kiriha and Lillithmon are, or what a Xros Loader is.* During the 90s, many popular anime series such as ''Anime/SailorMoon'' and ''Franchise/DragonBall'' were said to be French animated series in various European TV guides, because in a lot of European countries, they have been licensed through French media distributors.** Partially understandable since [[InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike the word "anime" looks like "animé", the French translation for animation in general, without the accent mark]]. For the record if you want to specify you're talking about Japanese animation in France, they use "Manga" for both anime and manga.* The back of the case for Creator/SentaiFilmworks' re-release of the original Anime/DiGiCharat TV series says that Piyoko and the Black Gema-Gema are gang causing trouble for Dejiko and opening a rival game shop to the one she works at. While they have done these things in the Specials...they don't even ''appear'' in the original TV series, so someone wasn't paying attention..* More than a few sites refer to ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' as a {{moe}} SliceOfLife SchoolgirlSeries. While it does have SliceOfLife elements in early episodes some summaries completely ignore most of it is a MagicalGirlWarrior anime [[spoiler:that dives straight into CerebusSyndrome toward the end]]* Sentai Filmworks also did this for their first press release about LightNovel/LogHorizon, saying that it had a "if you die in the game, you die for real" premise in much the same way as LightNovel/SwordArtOnline. Well, if the "adventurers" die, they just get respawned in the nearest Cathedral. The series does have [[FinalDeath permadeath]], however, but it's only for the NPC characters (called "People of the Land").* Speaking of Sword Art Online, the Astro provider in Malaysia once [[http://i.imgur.com/o02qTqA.png got the villain completely wrong.]] [[spoiler:The real villain is the creator of the deadly MMO, Akihiko Kayaba!]]* The front cover to the [[http://www.amazon.com/Escaflowne-Dragons-Destiny-Edited-Version/dp/B00004WJOG first edited VHS]] of ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' claims the series is "as seen on Cartoon Network's Toonami", and so does the Amazon review - however, the show was actually broadcast on Creator/FoxKids.* This [[http://www.sacurrent.com/Blogs/archives/2015/08/03/i-popped-my-san-japan-cherry-with-hentai-anime-porn first-hand account]] of someone who's never seen anime before going to a Creator/FUNimation panel refers to every single title listed as "hentai" - ecchi titles like ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' and the ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' anime are almost excusable for the mistake based off their online age restrictions and suggestive cover art/trailers, but ''Anime/{{Free}}'' has a clear PG label online as well as a fairly mild trailer that showcases no more than shirtless boys - how on earth can that be mistaken for hentai?* TV Guide's descriptions for episodes of ''Manga/OnePiece'' as they air on Toonami are technically accurate, but they are written in a clueless and somewhat confused manner, with only the good guys being named and everyone else merely described, that makes the show sound more random than it actually is. Examples include "Usopp and Zoro fight animal assassins; Sanji teaches a [=CP9=] agent how to make tea" (the episode's A-story was about Usopp and Zoro, handcuffed together, fighting [=CP9=] agents Jabra and Kaku, who can turn into animals, and the B-story was about Sanji fighting Kalifa, with Sanji briefly attempting to brew tea out of courtesy) and "Luffy and his friends say goodbye to the ship" (Luffy's ship, the Going Merry, has been damaged beyond repair and is in an unsailable state, and the episode is about its funeral).* Similarly, TV Guide's descriptions for each episode of ''Manga/BlueExorcist'' seem to be taken from the first three minutes of the episode, before the episode's plot actually surfaces, resulting in descriptions like "Rin shows up late for class" or "Rin demonstrates that he can cook." This makes ''Blue Exorcist'' sound like a SliceOfLife show when Rin and his friends actually spend much of their time fighting evil spirits and demons.* Overlapping with Western Animation, it's generally assumed that if a show ''looks'' [[{{Animesque}} like an anime]], it must be one. One could probably forgive cases like ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', but ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', which has a lot of satire regarding ''America'' and is based on an ''American newspaper comic''... Not so much. Not only that, but ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is inspired by an ''American'' Creator/DCComics series. [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting Then again, all animation is called anime in Japan, so...]]* One page about ''VideoGame/{{Aikatsu}}'' on the internet claimed that Super Girls' "Mune Kyun Love Song" was used as a theme song for that series. It was actually the fifth ending theme of ''[[VideoGame/PriPara PriPara]]'', which is the main competitor of Aikatsu.** On the subject of [=PriPara=], some people call the show a magical girl series because the girls change appearance when in Parajuku and are surrounded by cute mascots. It's actually an idol anime about girls trying to make their way to the top to gain popularity by forming teams and competing for special dresses.* An editor for Website/AnimeNewsNetwork tweeted in an advertisement for the fall 2016 preview guide "Your favorite waitstaff are back in ''[[Manga/{{Working}} WWW.WAGNARIA!!]]''". However, this new season has an entirely new main cast, something the editor realized the next day and apologized for messing up.* One of the episode descriptions for ''[[Anime/YoKaiWatch Yo-Kai Watch]]'' on Tri-State New York cable provider Optimum accidentally used the Japanese names for the characters [[DubNameChange instead of the dub names]]. This was only done for one episode, but some kids watching the show on demand may have been confused as to who "Keita" and "Fumi-chan" were.* One bootleg set of ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'' is not only missing the main character from the front cover, but has the description for ''Anime/ShadowSkill'' on the back. [[http://i.imgur.com/HmZbkKM.jpg See for yourself]].* [[http://insideout.pentecostalyouth.org/inspirational/calling-evil-evil/ This Penecostal article]] refers to ''Manga/DeathNote'' as "''The'' Death Note" and claims it contains detailed instructions on how to go into a trance and use your mind to take someone else's life.* The author of [[http://thwordinc.blogspot.com/2013/12/where-evil-takes-us.html?m=1 this blog post]] apparently believes all anime is child pornography, hoping to entice old men and corrupt and abuse the innocent and claims it is all about "innocent-looking schoolgirls who end up doing less than innocent things". Could be seen as a case of AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18655_9-beloved-characters-made-horrifying-by-japan.html This Cracked Article's author]] seems to have never seen the anime he complains about. Most glaring is ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''.where the author seems to think the Catholic Knights are the KKK (sorta understandable) and while he does recognize Alucard as the main protagonist according to the author the main villain is "a giant dog with lots of eyes commanded by a pedophile with bitching sholderpads" and a picture of Alucard after releasing restraint level 1 is given.* For some reason, Wiki/TheOtherWiki thinks thinks that the voice actors in ''Anime/BabyFelixAndFriends'' were [[Creator/GreyDeLisle Grey DeLisle]] and Creator/BillyWest, Creator/TaraStrong, Creator/CandiMilo, Creator/CreeSummer, Creator/KathSoucie, Creator/CoreyBurton, Creator/JeffBennett, [[Creator/MauriceLaMarche Maurice LaMarche]], Creator/RobPaulsen, Vince Corazza and Alicia Silverstone. Neither people was involved with the show at all. These errors also show up in [[http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Baby-Felix-and-Friends/ Behind The Voice Actors]] just like ''WesternAnimation/TheBrothersFlub''.----